Afghanistan in Transition

Hogg, Richard; Nassif, Claudia; Osorio, Camilo Gomez; Byrd, William; Beath, Andrew

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“…IMF country report (IMF 2011).2 Hogg et al (2012) estimate that donors spent close to 100% of GDP in the same year under the label of Afghanistan, though not all of this money was actually spent inside the country. In this case, the Afghan contribution is that much smaller at 10%.3 Even though donors expect the country to shoulder a larger share of the costs, the 2012 Chicago NATO summit nevertheless generated significant support over the coming decade, with Afghanistan agreeing to contribute up to 23% of its security costs.Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/ADEV_a_00033 by guest on 10 May 2021…”

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Afghanistan: Balancing Social and Security Spending in the Context of a Shrinking Resource Envelope

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Berkes²,

Fukac

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Asian Development Review

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For Afghanistan, the dual prospect of declining donor support and high ongoing security spending over the medium term keeps its government budget tight. This paper uses a general equilibrium model to capture the security–development trade-off facing the government in its effort to rehabilitate growth and fiscal sustainability. In particular, it considers strategic policy options for counteracting and minimizing the negative macroeconomic impact of possible aid and revenue shortfalls. We find that the mobilization of domestic revenues through changes in tax policy is the preferred policy response for the Afghan central government. Such a response helps to place its finances on a sustainable path in the near term and preserve most of the growth potential. Cutting expenditures balances public finances but causes the economy to permanently shrink. Debt financing helps to preserve much of the economy size but can quickly put the sustainability of public finances at risk.

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Afghanistan: Balancing Social and Security Spending in the Context of a Shrinking Resource Envelope

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Berkes²,

Fukac

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Asian Development Review

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“…In policy terms extreme caution is needed during international aid funds to avoid worsening governance challenges (Le-Billon's, 2003;Rose-Ackerman, 2008). This is clearly visible in Afghanistan last decade's international community aid process as the corruption level progressively increased and infected both government and some of the international aid organizations which currently placed Afghanistan among the top corrupt countries in the world (Leonardo and Robertson, 2009), and paved the way for around 80% of international aid to flow back out of Afghanistan and did not contribute to the country economy (Hogg et al, 2013). Goldthau (2013) highlighted the global impact of energy.…”

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Afghanistan electrical energy and trans-boundary water systems analyses : challenges and opportunities / Saadatullah Ahmadzai, Alastair McKinna.

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Afghanistan is a major country in the central Asian region and its ability to become a bridge between south and central Asia is critical to any form of development and interregional collaboration particularly in the energy sector. History has not been kind to Afghanistan and it is a less developed country with poor governance and weak institutions. However, today there are opportunities to overcome the legacy of the past and seizure the vicious circle of economic regressions and political violence into enhanced political stability and economic development. Afghanistan has sufficient energy resources to provide reliable electricity to its people and industries. Based on MEW estimates it has about 318 GW of renewable energy production capacity. Along with renewables there are significant hydrocarbons and coal resources. But despite the possession of these resources the country has remained underdeveloped with a low electrification rate of only around 30-38%. The deteriorating security conditions remain the main impediment to all the development incentives including the energy sector. The energy sector has technical, financial and institutional constraints. In addition, the trans-boundary water management issue remains a key obstacle for hydropower potential utilization. Almost all rivers of Afghanistan are shared with neighbor countries and except with Iran there is no trans-boundary water sharing agreements with other recipient countries. This has hindered hydropower utilization of Afghanistan. Furthermore, considering weak financial institution of Afghanistan it is a distant possibility for Afghanistan to finance the hydropower projects by its own. Therefore, water sharing disputes resolution with neighboring countries should be the first priority for Afghan government to attract global financial institutions investments. Cooperation grows from communal interests, and south and central Asia are united in the common benefits that both regions will get from energy trade and eventually regional prosperity. Afghanistan is well placed in adjacent proximity to the major hydropower and gas producer states which are desperate to diversify and reach central Asian markets. The country could become a hub of energy transit between the energy deficit south Asia and the energy surplus central Asia. The qualitative research approach has been followed to analyze and find out the key problems and opportunities of the sectors along with PESTLE and SWOT analyses.

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“…Decades of war and instability have destroyed the educational institutions in Afghanistan, resulting in 80 per cent illiteracy rate. With the withdrawal of international combat forces in 2014, the World Bank assesses that the upcoming years are crucial years for the developmental progress made in Afghanistan, the economic growth and the overall national security concerns, as the Afghans are taking responsibility for security with gradually reduced international aid and focus (Hogg et al, 2013).…”

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CSR in Afghanistan: a global CSR agenda in areas of limited statehood

Azizi

Jamali

2016

South Asian Journal of Global Business Research

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to explain the emergence of CSR in Afghanistan as a novel context in the South-Asian CSR debate. Design/methodology/approach -The findings of the paper are based on case studies of four corporations in the Afghan mobile telecommunications industry. Multiple sources of qualitative data are coded according to the analytical framework of the paper to generate the findings. Findings -The findings highlight that the Afghan national setting can be conceptualised as an "area of limited statehood" indicating the weak national institutional setting, which enables space for manoeuvring for non-state actors to play a pivotal role in business-society relations. The paper highlights that the CSR practices are driven by the multi-level organisational field that through a unique blend of global coercive, mimetic and normative pressures lead to convergence around explicit CSR themes.Research limitations/implications -The findings are based on CSR practices that are explicitly stated and do not include informal and/or implicit business-society practices in such contexts. Originality/value -This paper combines the literature on areas of limited statehood and the neo-institutional theory to explain the emergence of CSR the Afghan mobile telecommunications industry. The paper advocates for a shift from a national setting focus to a multi-level institutional field lens in providing contextualised explanation of the emergence of CSR in developing countries.

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Afghanistan in Transition

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Afghanistan: Balancing Social and Security Spending in the Context of a Shrinking Resource Envelope

Afghanistan: Balancing Social and Security Spending in the Context of a Shrinking Resource Envelope

Afghanistan electrical energy and trans-boundary water systems analyses : challenges and opportunities / Saadatullah Ahmadzai, Alastair McKinna.

CSR in Afghanistan: a global CSR agenda in areas of limited statehood

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